Examining Person–Environment Fit and Academic Major Satisfaction

Decisions regarding college majors have the potential to affect a person's overall academic performance and long‐term career success. With Holland's ( 1997 ) trait‐and‐factor theory serving as a foundation, the authors examined relationships between person–environment fit, college major satisfaction, and grade point average of undergraduate students (N = 99). Results revealed that student–major congruence and academic major satisfaction were both significant predictors of grade point average.     

Searching for New Answers: The Application of Task‐Technology Fit to E‐Textbook Usage

Students have been slow to adopt e‐textbooks even though they are often less expensive than traditional textbooks. Prior e‐textbook research has focused on adoption behavior, with little research to date on how students perceive e‐textbooks fitting their needs. This work builds upon Task‐Technology Fit (TTF) and Consumer Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) theory to present a student‐perspective model of e‐textbook usage. By contextualizing TTF and UTAUT2 to e‐textbooks, the research fills a gap in the literature and provides guidance to researchers and practitioners. The goal of the research is to understand how students perceive their task of learning to fit with e‐textbook technology, and how that fit influences e‐textbook usage and expected performance in their classes. To achieve this goal, the research develops a model to test the relationship between perceived TTF of e‐textbooks and UTAUT2‐defined user characteristics that encourage adoption behaviors, thus facilitating student learning. The findings show that four factors impact a student's perceived TTF: substitution, habit, hedonic motivation, and facilitating conditions. Furthermore, perceived TTF positively correlates with students’ e‐textbook usage and expected performance in classes when using e‐textbooks. While price value exhibits a measurable effect on e‐textbook utilization, it is a minor factor.     

减轻学生学业负担,培养学生创新精神和实践能力

随着国家经济的不断发展,减负这个词语不断被教育工作者提出来。在国家不断发展的今天,需要的是全方面发展的高素质人才,这样才能更好地建设祖国,实现中华民族的伟大复兴。所以,要想早日实现这些目标,就应该减轻学生的学业负担,培养学生的创新精神,激发学生动手操作的实践能力。     

Borders to cross: Identifying sources of tension in mentor–intern relationships

We used border crossing as a theoretical framework to explore the tensions that developed between two mentor–intern pairs during the course of a yearlong internship in high schools in the United States. Interviews with mentors and interns, and observations of planning sessions, teaching episodes, and follow-up conferences indicated that differing conceptions of mentoring, expectations related to communication, and beliefs about teaching formed the primary borders that the pairs had to navigate. Findings from the study suggest that the university must take a greater role in fostering communication between mentors and interns, and in providing on-going support to mentors engaged in teacher education.     

Improving the School Learning Environment to Reduce Bullying: An Experimental Study

A framework based on research on bullying and on educational effectiveness was offered to schools to assist them in developing strategies and actions to improve their learning environment, their policy for teaching, and their evaluation mechanisms in order to reduce bullying. At the beginning and end of the intervention, the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire and a teacher questionnaire measuring three school factors (school policy for teaching, school learning environment, and school evaluation) were administered to the experimental and control groups. This experimental study reveals that the intervention had both a direct impact on the reduction of bullying and an indirect impact through improving the school factors. Implications for research into supporting schools to reduce bullying are given.     

从家庭精神环境入手预防和减少幼儿的行为问题

家庭是儿童成长的重要驿站,是儿童社会化和心理发展的第一课堂。要想预防和减少幼儿的行为问题,就要从家庭精神环境入手,营造良好的夫妻关系,改善不良的教养方式,塑造良好的行为习惯,为幼儿的健康成长创设良好的精神环境。     

Creative Disruption — A Task‐Based Approach to Engaging With Original Works of Art

This paper examines the value of a task‐based approach to engaging with original works of art and focuses in particular upon the experiences of a group of PGCE Art and Design trainees when they visited an exhibition entitled, Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, to carry out given tasks. The extent to which a task‐based approach might creatively disrupt trainee teachers' thinking and the nature and significance of such thinking within an educational context is considered, as is the impact of the tasks on their developing understanding of the need for a diversity of approaches to critical engagement. It draws extensively upon selected responses to the tasks and the trainees' subsequent reflections on the experience. Comparisons are made between trainees' responses to particular works and references to these works that are detailed in the exhibition catalogue. This is undertaken with the intention of examining the interrelationship between understanding and knowledge when reading and responding to works of art in the gallery context. A further concern is to generate debate and challenge assumptions regarding the nature and dynamics of gallery based activities and contribute to a process of development and innovation in which all participants can play an active part.     

公共组织外部环境的不确定性管理

在现代社会中,公共组织的环境具有很大的不确定性,这使得公共组织与外部环境保持良性互动面临着更大的困难,更使得公共组织无法有效地履行其职能。采用强化公共组织的责任意识和学习能力、转变公共组织对待变革的态度、提高信息分析和处理能力等方式,可以加强公共组织对外部环境的不确定性管理。     

太极拳健身机理探析

太极拳作为一项中华国粹，对人体生理的保健作用主要表现为对神经系统、呼吸系统和心血管等系统的影响，本文采用文献资料法，通过查阅大量有关太极拳健身方面的资料，分析其健身机制，进一步研究了太极拳的健身价值。     

Sensitivity of the χ2 Goodness‐of‐Fit Test to the Choice of Classes

The χ² goodness‐of‐fit test is often one of the first tests of hypotheses encountered by students. When some of the expected frequencies are small, classes need to be combined. A real‐life example is given that illustrates a surprising sensitivity of the results of the test to the way in which such combinations are chosen.     

一种复方减肥降脂发酵植物饮料菌种的初步筛选

以复方减肥植物浸提液（由荷叶、山楂、决明子、沙棘果等药食同源植物浸提而成）为发酵基质,接种不同菌株,在23±2℃下培养5d后,离心分离菌体后上清液过滤得到发酵减肥降脂植物饮料.对灭菌后发酵减肥降脂植物饮料进行感官评价,获得了3株能显著改善口感的菌株.     

适应时代要求 提高人员素质

在知识经济时代,IT从根本上改变了人们的生活方式.情报资料工作者要能够接受挑战,不负重托,除了必须具备过硬的政治素质和良好的职业道德外,还必须具备一定的IT知识和技能,具备创新能力、社交能力和管理能力.     

构建基于网络环境下教师互助学习共同体促进教师教育技术应用能力提高的应用研究

本文以广州市教师多媒体创作和信息技术应用大赛搭建的参赛管理学习平台,提出构建教师互助学习共同体,促进教师教育技术应用能力提高;同时逐步构建本地优质资源和提高资源的有效应用.     

Gene–Environment Correlation Underlying the Association Between Parental Negativity and Adolescent Externalizing Problems

Studies of adolescent or parent‐based twins suggest that gene–environment correlation (rGE) is an important mechanism underlying parent–adolescent relationships. However, information on how parents' and children's genes and environments influence correlated parent and child behaviors is needed to distinguish types of rGE. The present study used the novel Extended Children of Twins model to distinguish types of rGE underlying associations between negative parenting and adolescent (age 11–22 years) externalizing problems with a Swedish sample of 909 twin parents and their adolescent offspring and a U.S.‐based sample of 405 adolescent siblings and their parents. Results suggest that evocative rGE, not passive rGE or direct environmental effects of parenting on adolescent externalizing, explains associations between maternal and paternal negativity and adolescent externalizing problems.     

适应时代发展做好思想政治工作

思想政治工作是经济工作和其它一切工作的生命线，重视思想政治工作是我们党的优良传统和政治优势，在经济全球化和中国加入WTO的新形势下，思想政治工作者要适应形势，树立“以人为本”的现代管理理念，把思想政治工作和行政，业务管理工作有机结合起来，寻找思想政治工作的新途径和新方法，把思想政治工作落到实处。     

知识型员工压力管理新探析

在知识经济时代,知识型员工是企业生存、发展的核心力量,对知识型员工的压力管理必须予以重视。因此,本文在前人已有研究成果的基础上,结合知识型员工的特点,分析其压力源,并探讨知识型员工压力管理的有效策略。     

有效学习理论下农民工职业教育质量提升的路径探索

农民工职业教育质量成为提升农民工整体素质,推动我国城镇化建设的关键.教师数量不够、门类不全、能力不足;课程供给与需求脱节、教与学位势错位、学习成果评价和认定困难以及由于投入不足、重视不够,所引发的农民工职业教育硬环境不佳、软环境缺失等问题,已经严重影响了农民工职业教育的质量.在有效学习理论指导下,通过全面提升农民工职业教育的整体师资水平、大力激发农民工职业教育学习的积极性和主动性、持续优化农民工职业教育的内外环境加以克服与解决.     

适应信息化装备建设发展导航工程专业

在信息化条件下,导航系统技术具有支撑、保障和全局作用,是现代武器装备的基准信息源和中心信息源,在现代化高技术战争中具有不可替代的地位。为适应军队信息化建设的需求,应大力培养导航系统的应用技术研究、工程设计开发、信息化武器装备使用维护为目的新型军事人,以满足军队武器装备信息化建设对不同层次的导航技术人才需要。     

降低玻璃配方成本的实用方法

玻璃配方成本决定着玻璃的生产成本。根据多年的生产经验及企业实际应用情况,对目前Na2O-CaO-SiO2系统玻璃降低玻璃配方成本最有实用价值的几种方法,作出比较,从中找出比较实用及适合企业选择的方法,以适应生产的需要。     

Examining the psychometric properties of the Infant–Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition in a high-stakes context

The psychometric properties of the Infant–Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R) were examined using 153 classrooms from child-care centers where resources were tied to center performance. An exploratory factor analysis revealed that the scale measures one global aspect of quality. To decrease redundancy, subsets of items were selected randomly and by experts who rated items according to ease of administration and importance to quality. The shorter subsets demonstrated good discriminant validity, adequate to good psychometric properties, and high associations to the full ITERS-R score. They also demonstrated similar associations to staff education and staff-to-child ratio, as the full instrument. The best assessment of quality was demonstrated by the shortened subset that included items that assess both structural and process features of quality. Multilevel-analyses indicated that classrooms from the same providers score more similarly on ITERS-R than classrooms from other providers. The implications for using the ITERS-R in high-stakes contexts are discussed.